We were taken advantage of by the dishonest and unethical business practices of John Mcaleese and Eric Kalter. We had went to them to take care of a 2003 tax audit which resulted in a large tax lien and were told by John Mcaleese that he could help us. He stated that he must first prepare our 2011 tax return before the IRS would even listen to him. We paid him $3,000 up front. He then stated do not call them until tax season is over as he would be too busy for us (which he did not mention until AFTER we paid him).
I missed two appointments (which I notified them by phone several days before) as John Mcaleese insisted on meeting with me to set up a corporation to protect our money, of which he would charge us another $2,200. As John is a fast talker with his $5 dollar words, I did not want to go to those appointments as we did not want to pay his INFLATED charges for a corporation that we could do ourselves online for through another service for $300, he got upset.
Long story short, he never filed our 2011 tax return, but filed an extention without notifying us, and then our bank accounts were levied. I called him and John Mcaleese advised me to call the IRS agent myself (although we gave him power of attorney), so after I met with the IRS agent, I called John and Eric and cancelled Kalter's services immediately. John would not return phone calls or return our original bookkeeping records, receipts or ledgers and became very irate.
We had already paid him $3,000 and we had another bill that came recently stating that our "total BALANCE of your account is $834.50" so when my wife called him to pay him the final balance in order to pick up our records, he became very belligerant and said "What makes you think you only owe me $837.50... You owe me $5,314.13 on top of the $3,000 you already paid me!"
Over $8,314.13 for services he never provided... He was pulling figures out of the air and charging us for telephone calls, conversations, missed appointments and everything he could think of. One of many charges was for time he took to speak to the IRS agent, and charged us hundreds of dollars, and when we asked the IRS agent, we were told that they did NOT speak to him for the time and dates he specified, nor did they speak to him that many times as he was claiming and charging us for.
None of these HIDDEN FEES were ever disclosed to us prior to using Kalter or John nor did we sign or agree to any of these fees. John finally gave us our records, but made my wife cry and made her sign a promissory note to pay the balance. Kalter knew that our accounts were levied and we had to beg, borrow, and scrape up every last dime we had to pay him $1,000.00 and sign a promissory note to pay the balance otherwise they will turn us over to collections, etc.
The next day, Eric Kalter the owner of the company calls my wife and belittles her with his intimidation tactics and made her cry on the phone after listening to him put us down and refer to us as "uneducated" people with his shovinistic attitude that he is God's gift to this world and showed us absolutely no mercy. John and Eric are nothing but COWARDS in my book for talking to a woman the way they did and then have the audassity to call themselves "Christians" by lying and cheating their clients and making their wives cry.
Shame on them and may the Lord show them the same mercy they have shown us in our hour of need. Since then, we have made numerous contacts with others who have had the same experience with Kalter and their unethical business practices and will continue until their unethical and unscrupulous business practices come to and end once and for all! God Bless you and beware!
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